GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



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rT TT^hool^-At the meeting of the London School Board, the 

 Flowers for ^ ee reported that they had had their attention called to 

 Management ^ £mbassy at Ber , in) giv i ng the arrangements 



^ following repor schools ^ flowers from the public parks . 



in Berlin Ig^ espedal]y in , Humboldt- Hain,' flowers 



-Intbetowngara Quantities durinc the summer months of the year, 



1 u in proportionate quantities „ . 

 ^gathered in F f^ disposa i of the upper grade and lower grade municipal 



,nd «e place ^ alsQ at the disposal of pr ivate schools for a considera- 



schools, at their . . , . . f botanv# The flowers are sent to fW , , . * _ ~" " —* «augci B i^age, a nouse known at 



£, for .he *H& l 23a£^2£ **** they arC S£nt in bund,CS ' IS 33 ^T tC ? H ° USe ' L ° nd0n C ° UDty C0Undl " e D0W 



U he schools in J^H^^,^ of plant, and only one £^T^£L^ ° f for tbe P"'P°- 



.,h bundle containing fifty specimens otthe same spew ^ ^ ^ ^ avaflableas a shelter to frequenters to Blackheath and neighbour- 



Rhododendron 



consequently these have been employed freely in the work of remodelling and 

 replanting the Northernhay Gardens at Exeter. A piece of land formerly rented 

 by the Northernhay Club has now been added to these public gardens, and so 



h Maiestvs wmcc u. nu.«, ^m™ w „ - ws — - — P gfeatIy increase the effect of extent - The new rhododendrons here 



t0 Tin Berlin for supplying flowers from the public parks to the elementary a * n ° w booming, and near by is a bambco garden of small size, but planted 



T .Id inquiring whether somewhat similar arrangemenss could not be made ™ th fine 'Jg X ™ B * of the most beautifld species. On other slopes that formerly 



^'^fifof public elementary and other schools in London. On the motion ™ re a , lmost entirely with laurels and other evergreens, variety has been 

 f^fr Graham Wallas it was decided that letters be addressed to the London 



them make then advent into this new era. They have only made their graceful 

 bow to us. £ ou have only begun to know a flower when you see it as it is 

 must have the prophetic anointing and see it as it is to be. 



™. R T t ge l' S P ?r k ' qreenwic h. some fifteen acres in extent, was formally 



opened to the public on Saturday last. The site now covered by flower beTIS 



oZllZ ap t y S5S House ' where the great Duke of 



T^Tltt,J^TJ CC ^ im ° { P"^_w» ** off from Greenwich Park 



Lodge 



each 

 bundle 



J t0 each botany class. The names of the plants which may be 

 bundle . . the wee k are published every Sunday in the public Press, 

 expected ^ gardens are not supplied for the decoration of schools, or 



} lowers the mto scholars." The committee were of opinion that similar 



Dg ments might possibly be made in London, and with a view of achieving 

 T*^b'ect recommended that letters be addressed to the London County Council 



Works, setting forth the arrange 



graceful 



Work 



flowers to the London schools in the same manner as in Berlin. 



Mr. W. Howard, for many years manager to Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 

 at their Coombe Wood Nurseries, has now entered upon similar duties with Mr. 

 Anthony Waterer, Knap Hill, Woking. A large number of Mr. Howard's 

 friends at Kingston took advantage of the opportunity his removal from Coombe 

 ifforded to present him some tangible token of their good wishes. The presenta- 

 tion was made a few days ago by Mr. A. W. Homersham, J. P., and consisted of 

 a fine gold keyless hunting watch and a purse of ten guineas. 



Beauty in Plants and Flowers.— Plant beauty is of two sorts, beauty of 



colour and beauty of form. In some plants, like the calla, beauty of form predomi- 

 nates; in others, like the paeony, beauty of colour; in still others, like the 

 gladiolus, the lines of stalk, flower, and bud are as noticeably lovely as their 

 colours. In the rose we have beauty both of form and colour. There are 

 different kinds of love for flowers, adds Mr. Henry T. Bailey, of Scituate, Mass., 

 U.S.A. There is the scientific love ; those who have only this seldom get the 

 true message of the flowers. At the other extreme are people having a sentimental 

 love for flowers ; they pronounce their colours^marvellous, and gush indis- 

 criminately over their beauty. The third kind of love for flowers has a basis of 

 ntelligent appreciation. The greatest enjoyment is when scientific love is combined 

 with a sympathetic appreciation of beauty. 



A New Broom.— Writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, Sir Herbert Maxwel 



nums, thorns, deutzias, weigelas, and hypericums ; further along where the common 

 Cytisus scoparius has always done so well, many choice kinds have been planted, 

 such as C. s. Andreanus, C. praecox, C. albus, &c. It is proposed to raise the 

 roof of the band stand, so that during summer it will be possible to suitably 

 decorate the structure with various free growing climbers, and suspended 

 of graceful and bright flowers and plants. 



baskets 



causes 



lays : " Gardeners and garden lovers seem slow to realize the singular beauty of a cask 



much inconvenience in this and other countries, but it is one that is not easily put 

 right unless a central body for deciding which name should be retained was created. 

 The Society of American Florists is making efforts in the right direction, as its 

 Nomenclature Committee intends to lay before the society any cases of misnaming 

 or double-naming of plants handled by the American trade. Such cases will be 

 dealt with, but we are not aware on what lines or how delinquents will be treated. 

 Professor W. Trelease is chairman, so we may feel assured that the question uill 

 be thoroughly wcrked out. 



Fatal Effects of Drinking Weed Killer.— It appears almost incredible 



that any sane person should draw liquid from a cask and drink it without knowing 

 anything whatever of its character ; yet it is frequently done, and, in some 

 instances, with fatal results. A sad fatality occurred at Aberlour, Strathspey, 

 the other day from this unwise practice. It appears, from the particulars kindly 

 supplied by a correspondent, that a labourer, while engaged in a garden in 

 the village of Aberlour, finding a cask containing a liquid, drew a small quantity 

 and drank it, under the impression that it was sour beer. Instead of the 



variety 



poor 



name Cytisus scoparius Andrewsi. In this lovely shrub the standards, or upright three hours of his having taken the fatal draught. It is very unwise for anyone 



petals, are dyed a deep crimson or marone, contrasting vividly with the rest of the to drink a liquid from a cask standing in a corner of the garden, for beverages are 



golden corolla. It is as easily grown and as hardy as the common type, and may not usually kept in that way, but, knowing that it is done, all vessels containing 



also be forced into bloom a couple of months before it is due to flower in the weed killers should be kept under lock and key, and bear the inscription 



open. It makes a brave show in the conservatory, and so little are people " Poison 99 in bold letters. Not only is it advisable that such sad accidents 



acquainted with it that visitors almost invariably ask, What is that beautiful a s this should be prevented, but is desirable that, as weed killers are great aids to 



exotic ? " There is nothing surprising in gardeners and garden lovers failing to t h e gardener in keeping the *alks and drives free from weeds, they should not be 



brought into disrepute. 



A Horticultural Students* Society has been formed in connection with 

 the Essex County School of Horticulture. Towards the completion of the 



beauty 



into the market." The writer is evidently referring to Cytisus scoparius 

 Andreanus, and if this be the case we unhesitatingly say that not only is the beauty 

 of the shrub highly appreciated, but it has already been extensively planted. 



Speedy Extraction of Rubber.— At the agricultural exhibition held not 



long since in Jamaica there was exhibited a new machine for the extraction of 



rubber from the crude flow of sap. In about two minutes the machine separates 



the rubber from the milky matter, and is then placed in a suitable place where it 



will dry in about three hours into sheets or slabs of marketable rubber free from 



a alburnenoid matter. The tree from which the supply was obtained is a species 

 oi Castillo. • 



Droc Pr ° gr r e f i0 Florlcu,tur e in America. -For years upon years the 

 progress of floriculture was slow, simply because it was im perfectly understood , 

 ■m its devotees had hedged it with unbending rules that excluded all but them- 

 es. But a new era of floriculture has dawned. Life is now too short to 



be lT-T V DC fl ° Wer aS WC haVC C ° me t0 understand it- A man deserves to 

 fash;™ 8 ? r Wh ° takeS SOme sweet floral n y m P h of the woods, or some old- 

 OnlorT; 7v. V0Unte ° f ° Ur childh o° d g^den, and make a royal family of it, 

 one m J r 7 $terious colours that are hidden in & P^e bosom, and turning 

 In refe Cinderella into a hundred queens of beauty and proud grace. 



Rev R h i? ma - terS bef ° re thC Massachusetts Horticultural Society the 

 what Mr F 1 fi i' himself an ardent florist and sweet pea raiser, stated that 



men have d / ^ ^ the SWCet pCa * SCOre of other consecrated noble- 

 Tl none for other flowers. The time has not come to canonize these men. 



some rich man's gardener, or 



ear 



and established a society with the above title. The object of the society is to 

 promote home study ar.d to encourage out-of-door observation of matters and 



Kach 



things bearing upon horticulture. . 

 year an original paper upon some gardening subject, such paper to be the result 

 of actual study and e.pe.ience on the part of the writer. .These ess^ are arcu 

 lated amongst the numbers, and notes and criucums invited. The subjects 

 discussed in the essays prepared in the course of the past winter 

 practical character, and the one published in the quarterly ,ou,nd o he Technical 

 Education Committee evinces a sound knowledge of the subject dealt w.th. 



An Experimental Station at Tunis has been instituted by the rrench 



auth^tifs for ^promotion of the sciences of agriculture horticulture and 



Thev K <«jwers. i ne time nas not 



they areT thr ° Ugh ^ hUmble Walk ° f bei " g 



cloth^™" °?v thdr kneCS ' n communion with th « son, wearing tl» poor man s we did dur i ng the same pc.«~ "Y~ 7 '\ :~~ "7° 7 A J c nm , Mks are stil 



Ae chL r g ? C P1 " anCe ° f a Stru S8 Hn S florist > ha PPy if ^me lady will pay the prese „ t year was i6,o 5 o tons in the last week of April. Some ^ 



4 when r 4 But if >'° U Wi " ^ "* usher ^ in 52 urging at, in view of this huge import, British farmers should 



^tJr^ Wi » b <! ^ *# ° f - d whenmen of the proudest S 0 f potatos largely ; we think otherwise, for he need of mfgg 



no one to hed forward to enable the authorities to open the 



T* 7 n Sotr nex^ It *ould be remembered that Tunis is mainly an agri- 

 station m CWoberoart. «J ^ ^ tf 



^ of wine and olivc oiU 



n imnnrts of Potatos for the first four months of the present year 

 Our l«PO"f ' " 6 or some thing like fifteen times as many as 



a, nbition anl ' • 4«ccn ui aru., ana wnen men ot the proudest 



m «ntal rem 0 J ntelligence wiU to have their names associated in monu- 



nothing to Cm f ance with the development of some flower. We have carri 



P€"ecUon yet. One by one the flowers that have great possibilities 



and the south-west of England-a 

 seldom so complete as in 1897. 



poor crops 01 pouuua piwu^u /' — - 

 n^--a failure that does not often occur, or, at least 



